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Bramble is an online platform aimed at connecting students wanting to sell or buy textbooks, as well as physical and electronic notes. This not only allows students to earn an extra income, but it also makes the learning process a whole lot easier.
As students ourselves, we understand the real life of a student and we hope to give you more room for the good life, more ti...

A celebration of the poets, their songs and of course paired with wine! Featuring guitar virtuouso & songwriter, Mel Botes.
For the past nine years, multi-talented musician and master guitarist Mel Botes, has tantalized audiences all over the country with his critically acclaimed musical performances in two Pink Floyd tribute shows, “Crazy Diamond” and “Dark Side of the...

In his new one-man show, Dry White, Nik explores the causes and its ramifications of Cape Town’s water crisis – which if you know anything about Cape Town, you may know are not the same for everyone. He looks at the bigger picture, but also the smaller picture – the details nobody has had time to consider. For example; should we really still be referring to it as The Cape of St...

Distributed on behalf of David Pena, Valley North Neighbourhood Watch:
JOIN US FOR A MASS HIKE TO TAKE BACK OUR MOUNTAIN!
Are you tired of the senseless violent attacks on the mountains and beaches?
Are you fed up with the criminals and perpetrators owning the mountains and beaches?
Are you tired of feeling unsafe and unable to even take a short walk into the mo...

From the City of Cape Town.
18 JANUARY 2018
STATEMENT BY THE CITY’S EXECUTIVE MAYOR PATRICIA DE LILLE
In summary:
Day Zero is now likely
60% of Capetonians won’t save water and we must now force them
Punitive tariff to force high users to reduce demand
50 litres per person per day for the next 150 days
Drought Charge likely to be scrapped by Council
We ...

What it is?
“No More Bare Feet” was established in 2016 by Mondeka Mabibini, as the second leg of the Uphawu Community
Development organisation, of which she is the founder.
What’s our Aim?
The aim of the No More Bare Feet campaign is to give children in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape, where she comes from, shoes to wear to school. Many children are from poor b...

From: City of Cape Town
13 November 2017
The first large shoals of yellow tail for the summer were spotted in False Bay over the weekend. The City of Cape Town wants to remind beach goers that the presence of great white sharks increases in in-shore areas with the arrival of yellow tail and higher water temperatures.
In-shore shark activity usually increases over the s...

From: City of Cape Town - 13 November 2017
Dam storage levels are at 36.8%, with useable water at 26.8%. Collective water usage is 582 million litres, therefore 82 million litres above the required level of 500 million litres per day.
Our dam levels have declined by 1% over the past week. This could be attributed to the high winds and hot weather which contributed to eva...

From: City of Cape Town
The first water from the Oranjezicht Main Springs Chamber started flowing into the Molteno Reservoir today, 8 November 2017. This is part of the City of Cape Town’s ongoing Water Resilience Programme to increase the supply of drinking water. This project will see an additional two million litres per day of safe, clean drinking water added to the City’...

Today I visited the site of one of the City of Cape Town’s modular land-based desalination plants. The plant will produce 2 million litres of water per day and this water will be fed into the City’s water distribution network by February 2018.
Last week I made a commitment to communicate directly with all Capetonians about the City’s work to secure alternative water sources....